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As some of you may know, I bought Matt's (88WS-6) 88 GTA. Koni Yellows, Eibach springs, LS1 driveshaft, 3.70 9 bolt rear, Polys, just about rust free and very straight save for a minor dent in the passenger quarter. L98, hardtop, cloth interior, analog gauges. Only problem it had a knock in the bottom end.

Dragged it up to Sussex County where I bolted down the seats with some spare hardware I had laying around...yes it was missing two nuts on each front seat...vacuumed out the interior and found a cassette of love songs in the tape deck.... Yanked the motor out, found the main bearings were destroyed, rod bearings were normal wear and tear, but the cam bearings and cam were in the same shape as the crank and mains. Destroyed.

Eagle cast crank, rebuild kit and an LT1 cam (Thanks to green92formula for that) later I'm almost done with it and just about ready to go back in the car. I'm thinking this car will be a stepping stone between my 84 in stock configuration and my 84 as it will be done when I finish that project. I will certainly get an idea of how it will handle thanks to the suspensions being nearly identical.

Perhaps this weekend if all goes well I'll have it on the street. Pics to follow. Since this was a quick rebuild, and the top half was very clean I left the heads alone save for cleaning them up. I'll do them eventually if needed.